Comparative Cultural Validity Test

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Communists replaced this:

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No one should feel ashamed for things done by others, before they were born.

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It may not have been a good thing but desperate times called for absolute barbarity. The Germans had destroyed so much of Europe in the same manner that they really had it coming to them. London, Warsaw, Leningrad. All these cities were subject to heavy bombing/bombardment by the Germans.

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In 1939 the RAF declined to bomb battleships in harbour because they might kill a dockworker. Following the escalation of the war, especially after The Blitz, these humane scruples were gradually retracted until Bomber Command openly admitted targeting the German civilian population in a systematic campaign of terror. The limitations of technology meant that accuracy was so bad that sometimes the wrong *country* was bombed. This meant pinpoint strikes to take out a factory were mostly impossible, so the alternative was to rain fire and devastation over an entire urban center to kill or terrorize the factory workers. The comparative casualties from The Blitz and the Allied bomber offensive over Europe are totally lopsided. But because the Germans lost, and were "the bad guys", people don't really care. One factor that makes the bomber offensive so controversial is that for all the devastation it caused, it didn't seem to be that effective: 1944, the year of heaviest bombing, was also the year of greatest German war production.

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Reminds me of the ugly concrete architecture in Ontario during the 1970s. But then again, that was a time of socialism in Canada under Trudeau. And yes he was a member of the Canadian Communist Party before he got involved in federal politics so I guess shit minds do think alike.